The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-12
EW'SIIETS.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Congressman James w. Reid OF tho
Fifth Congressional District ef North
Carolina has resigned. :. The House
committee on rivers and harbors recon-
mcnds ali appropriation Of $7,15S,250.
The estimates submitted was $30,vSl,-
749; Of this $l30,000 is for Charleston
harbor and Sullivau's Island, $4,000 for
the Great Pee Dee River, $4,000 for
Santcc River, and $4,000 for Wacca-
nav River. The total amount appro-
priatcG for the Mississippi River from
ST. Paul to its mouth is $2,O9l 900, and
for the Missouri River $39G.000. ;. The
Senate has confirmed the nominations
Of Mary 5. Douglas Of Marion, Mrs. B.
G. Law of Darlington, and Mrs. Young
blood Of Chester, as postmastcrs -. Con-
grcss has granted pension OF $4,000 q
and FraHcis =. Blair. $7G,2 ~, 500 has
bccn appropriated for pensions. =. Her
bert f. Bccchcr, son of Henry Ward
Becchcr, has been appointed special
agent OF the treasury The Presidents
health is much improved. On Sat-
urJay the Sth inst, the bill to
appropriate $780, 900 for public build
ing in the city Of Charleston, aud au-
thorizing The sale Of the present post
ollice building in that city,. was defeated.
-. Representative Iliscock, OF Now
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the Internal Revenue taxation and du-
ties OH raw sugar, and for other pur-
poses. The most striking feature Of it
IS \ provision for bounty Of two dollars
per ton of sugar cane or bccts raised in
this country and manufactured into su-
gar, the bounty to be paid to the farmer
raising it. The tobacco tax Is repealed,
and on spirits retained. The conferces
on the electoral count bill have practi-
cally reached an agreement on that
measure. Representatives Rcagin and
Weaver arc absent looking after their
senatorial proSpccts... Senator Brown
Of Georgia will not resign as has been
reported. The Inter State Commerce
Bill regulating railroads was discussed
at length III the Senate on Monday.
Senators Beck, Cullum and Harris in
favor Of, and George and Stanford in
opposit ion. :. Mr.. Dibblc presented the
oath sworn to and signed by ID. Wyatt
Aiken Of South Carolina.
GENERAL.
The North Carolina Legislature has
elected John II. Webster the nominee
of the Independent Democrats, speaker,
and G.. NJ. Bulla, Republican, clerk. :. :.
,, Nine unknown bodies were burned
beyond recognition in the Tillin, Ohio,
railway wreck last week. The response
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freight conductor Fletcher. -. Hon. l..
Q. G. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior,
and Mrs. Wm. S. Holt, Of Macon, Ga.,
= were married on the 9th instant. D..
, Mathew S. Quay, OF Philadelphia,
Penn, has been elected u. S. Senator,
to succeed Senator Mitchell and VIM
, NJ. Stewart, u. S. Senator from Nevada
Both are Republicans .... Raleigh and
Charlotte, N. g., have street railways
S in successful operation 49,. Mcssrs. A. j
T. Baker and j. N. Cook, while on theil
, way from Lancaster County, S. c., tC
u Palestine, Texas, were robbed Of $27;
while lying over at Houston, Texas.
c Col j. II. Avcrill, has been promoted
q from the position Of master OF transport
-, tation to the supcrintcndency Of tht
y South Carolina Railway Colnpany...
/ There was railway smash up at Chica
go on the 9th. No one seriously hur
IAN explosion Of natural gas a
n Youngstown, Ohio, in the Andrew.
G building destroyed 100000 of property
and painfully burned the watchman ant
fireman; one of the watchmcn Is miss
> ing and supposed to be In the ruins....
/, Two men blew up a section Of the Cabl
y Gutter Street Railway In San Francisco
:, with dynamite on the 9th inst. :. Tw'
" negroes, Jacob Graham and Olive
9 Smith attempted to commit rape upoi
II Miss Mary Cooley, an extremely rcspcc
S table white girl in 1Iuiet township
Edgcfleld County, on the 1st inst. The,
have been lodged in jail. 1t is claime
that Gen. Alexander paid Mrs. Hetti
=, Green $l274 per share for her Contra
u stock to use in his election for presidcn
ID OF the road. The shares were G,400 II
&c number. =. The election of Gen. Alex
, andcr as president OF the Georgia Cen
', tral, is said to mean an arrangement be
III tween the Central aud the Richmon
or and Danvillc systems. Governor Ie
I'd has declined the request of Cluverius t.
;s visit him. DIR. Joshua NJ. Doyle, @
Linton. Tenn, was arrested at Mash
lc vile, Tenn, on the night OF the 4t
IN inst, for the murder OF Joseph Dentsf
I'd q barber, in Dillingham;, Illinois, in 1860
&c The thermometer registered thirty
" two degrees below zero at St. Pau
NJ Minnesota, on the 7th inst. The tota
le number of business failures reported
a. Mcssrs. r. G. Dunn & Co., was, Unite
a. States 27l, Canada 2S, total 900, agains
', 273 last week, and 2G3 the week pre-
IL vious. +. Two old misers, Joseph PER-
lc and Robert Price were found dead In
N tenement house in Philadelphia, Penn
>, on the 9TH. . Francis b. Stockbridge
:, Wcp.) has been elected to succeed Sens
III tor Conger, Of Michigan. -. III q diff
in Guilty at Il ball at Moorhcad, Ky, on til
OF night of the 4th inst, between Maso
~ Kccton and John Bogcrs, Keeton WI
Woi W killed and Rogers made narrow oscar
nc with his life. Senator Thurman W,
he temporarily indisposed at the close I
IS the jackson banquet at Columbus, Ohi
cd on the night of the 7th. His frien'
", were alarmed at the time, but 1t prove
OF to be nothing serious. The total Wis
rs bic supply of cotton for the world
,s- 3,237, ,bGG bales, Of which 2,7ss,556 bal
We ".c h'ioi.oni. - ~ ny noaaou, LIZ o.o n'
ng lied on the 9Th instant, at Birmin
,st ham, Alabama, with capital of g
ta- 100000, comprising London, Englan
oU- Baltimore, Charleston and Birmingha